Please, please don’t buy an ‘AI-optimized’ screen protector or phone case

Call me a Luddite, but my eyes glaze over when a product claims it has an “AI-optimized” design. Whether it’s marketing oversaturation or a growing existential dread as AI threatens to take over both my career and my hobbies, the phrase goes into one ear and out the other as just another buzzword, even though AI is changing the world as I write this.

This came back to mind recently after a viral Reddit post showed a screen protector with an “Optimized for AI” badge on the box. After some investigation, it appears to be a standard tempered glass screen protector from AmazingThing. I guess it’s as “Optimized for AI” as a screen protector can be, since it’s just a thin piece of glass.